Are you interested in investigative journalism? The topic is alive, maybe more than ever through the cases of the recent Whistleblowing, which have a huge public interest. Find below some useful data you might missed.
In general there are three trends in investigative journalism nowadays
– Data journalism
– Crow djournalism
– Leak journalism
Find below some of the available examples.
Data:
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/
Major investigations:
- Lobbyings Hidden Influence
- Covert Drone War
- Deaths in Police Custody
- UK Housing crisis (2013)
Crowd:
ProPublica – Journalism in the public interest
Major investigations:
- Guns Control in the USA
- NSA/Snowden Files
- The Deadly Choices at Memorial
www.voicesofworkersafety.tubmlr.com
Brown Moses blog:
Eliot Higgins, 2012
http://brown-moses.blogspot.ch
- Crowdfunding through IndieGogo (2013)
- Topic: Accurate fact-checking of weapons used in Syria and elsewhere
Leak:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept
- First publication of First Look Media, Feb. 2014
- Focus on investigations over Showden’s files
Partnerships:
The Associated Whistleblowing Press Iceland International, Spain (2004)
- LeakDirectory.org
Case Study:
PubLeaks https://www.publeaks.nl/
- First Dutch Whistleblowing (WB) Platform
- Multi-stakeholder WB model
- 42 Partners involved
- PubLeaks foundation > Accountability
- Training for journalists
- Regulation
- Globaleaks open source technology https://globaleaks.org/
- Stress on sources decision
Case Study:
Briefkasten – Die Zeit https://github.com/ZeitOnline/Briefkasten
- Launched 2012
- Open source platform
- Interesting case of “in house” wb platform
- Strong accountability
- Team of prof. Journalists
Update: 15:00
Global Investigative Journalism Network
http://gijn.org/
Update: 06.05.2014
You are working already as a professional journalist and want to pitch your idea about an investigative story, but your chief editor is not very happy with it, as it takes time and money to make the story real? Maybe the Journalism Fund is an option.